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...pondering, considering; and in the meantime the opportunity for scoring a psychological victory is past. Or it plays the ostrich game; buries its head in the sand and refuses to admit anything has happened. You don't counter something with nothing; you counter something with something better. You intercept the pass and run with the opponent's ball...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KHRUSHCHEV'S LIES NEW SOVIET LOW | 12/19/1955 | See Source »

...second quarter, but this was matched four minutes later when George Deemys tallied for Tufts. The varsity kept the ball beyond midfield in the first two quarters but this advantage was equalized by the daring play of Tufts goalie winton Briggs, who roamed far from the nets to intercept Crimson passes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Conquers Tufts in Opening Soccer Game, 5-1 | 10/5/1955 | See Source »

Even bigger electronic brains are being readied for the Air Force's supersecret "Project Lincoln." These computers will one day direct the defense of North America by calculating the course, speed and altitude of approaching enemy planes, then firing guided missiles to intercept them. A 701 has gone to work for the Weather Bureau, and will attempt to make weather forecasting an exact science. Weathermen will feed into it hundreds of reports on rainfall, temperature, humidity, expect that the brain will be able to predict accurate weather for any place in the U.S. 48 hours in advance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: The Brain Builders | 3/28/1955 | See Source »

Cleary opened the scoring at 5:25 of the first period by deflecting Manchester's blue-line shot into the lower left corner. In the second period, prolonged clearing troubles allowed Yale to intercept a pass, and Pete Crisp tied the score with a hard shot into the extreme upper left...

Author: By Charles Steedman, | Title: Crimson Tops Yale Six, 4-1; Cleary Scores Four Points | 3/7/1955 | See Source »

...yards. The varsity, mean-while, surprised the large crowd of 32,000 by trying 22 passes; it completed seven for a total of 106-yards--36 of this total coming on a long pitch from Phil Haughey to Bob Cochran, Dartmouth was able, however, to take advantage of three interceptions, while the Crimson falled to intercept any of Beagle's passes. Beagle called a surprisingly conservative game, rarely passing in his own territory. Despite the superiority of Harvard's line he used line plays rather than risk on interception...

Author: By David L. Halberstam, | Title: Fumbles, Mistakes Provide Dartmouth With 13-7 Win Over Crimson's Eleven | 10/25/1954 | See Source »

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